Comments on: Rangers give Redden’s agent permission to talk to other teamshttp://nhl.nbcsports.com/2013/01/11/rangers-give-reddens-agent-permission-to-talk-to-other-teams/
ProHockeyTalk on NBCSports.comFri, 09 Dec 2016 15:37:54 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: newyorkislanderfancentralhttp://nhl.nbcsports.com/2013/01/11/rangers-give-reddens-agent-permission-to-talk-to-other-teams/comment-page-1/#comment-126432
Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:36:23 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126432Cablevision had money, the Rags lose money. The Rags missed the playoffs eight years in a row with one bought Edmonton cup since 1940 and are run by Dolan and Sather clown show. The Rags play a trap or dive on their knees and crawled to elimination in front of an overstuffed 10-10 goalie who was outplayed by another Cap rookie and Brodeur wearing half his equipment.
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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:56:51 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126301No solution is needed. With Redden’s cap hit, the Rangers are at $64,858,334 in cap spending… which leaves them $5,341,666 in cap space for the season. With Del Zotto asking for $3 million, and the Rangers offering $2.4 million they have plenty of cap space for him. Also, Sauer’s $1.25 million will come off the books once hes placed on IR… giving them even more cap space, and at least one of their forwards will be sent down at the start of the seas (probably Haley), freeing up at least $600k more. Their cap situation is fine for this season.

Next year they might have some issues with the cap being $64.3 million and Stepan, McDonagh, and Hagelin (and perhaps Sauer, if his career isn’t over) needing new deals… but they can worry about that in the summer.

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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:43:35 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126297An Islanders fan calling the Rangers a “laughingstock franchise”? Thats a funny one. Rangers came within two games of playing for the cup last year…. what did the Islanders do? Oh yeah, they missed the playoffs for the 5th year in a row.

I won’t argue that the Rangers haven’t made some awful financial moves over the years, but hey… they have the money so they spend it. The Islanders struggled to make the cap floor every year. That makes a team far more a third rate franchise then one that has ample money and spends it poorly.

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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:20:27 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126287I totally agree with you . They’d be high if they started asking for a pretty good prospects !
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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:21:17 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126284Sorry man. Avid Blues fan here, and while I’d agree with you…cap hit be damned, if the Rangers try to take any of our stocked up talent for this guy I’d say no. Other than that, we would be a good depth guy for our defense, especially in a shortened season.
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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:20:27 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126275Sure, they’ll buy him out next summer, but what do they do this season? His salary now counts, even if he is in the minors. The Rangers nearly have the cap room, but MDZ is still an RFA. Something needs to give here, and no easy solution springs to mind.
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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:22:13 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126272I bet Redden would do anything to be rid of the stench of the third rate Rags. This is why players demand front-loaded money like Drury, Gomez, Richards to go play for that laughingstock franchise. They got paid and then they got rid of them and Richards time will come based on how mediocre he was last year. To throw Redden in the AHL to hide his money then play it so cheap they kept out of the AHL during the lockout was brutally unfair to Redden.
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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:45:52 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126268hockeyflow33….I bet your wrong!
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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:25:52 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126256I’d bet that he’d play for half that salary just to be back in the NHL
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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:59:20 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126251Every team is above the cap floor right now according to capgeek. The floor is 44 million. The Islanders have the second lowest cap total at 50.2 million…about 80 thousand more than the Coyotes. Their payroll is 41.3 million, but the cap total is over the floor.
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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:58:30 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126250I agree ! As long as the Rangers eat as much of it as they can ( I think 50% is the most they can ), I would have no problem with it . Besides, it can’t be any worse than what we had a couple of years back ( Brewer ) . Yeah, he is a good guy but, wasn’t that great for what we paid him . Maybe, he just couldn’t get past the pressure put on him having to replace Pronger .
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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:11:44 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126242Thats a very short view of the situation. – even i don’t know 100% what happened with this guy but i thought he just signed a nice big contract like most players do when they have near 40+ point seasons as a defenseman.
Nothing wrong with that, GM’s are willing to give players that kinda money.

After that he didn’t make the 30 points in the first 2 seasons of his contract and then got kicked-down to the AHL because the Rangers could use his Capspace for other scoring players like Gaborik and they had Chris Drury also in that time if i’m not mistaken.
There are more players who are in that situation where they’re not playing for the money they earn. Rick DiPietro? , Sean Avery 4.2M, Scott Gomez, … i think almost every team has a few players who are getting paid more than they preform on the ice.

Btw, if the Rangers trade him they can split the salary-/CAP in the new trade system so it’s easier for teams to trade those kinda players. Just look what happen right now, they deal him to some other team, get stuck with still a a few million of his contract while Redden will just play like a top 4 D-man. The Rangers just haven’t used him in those years because they couldn’t handle his contract on the Cap.
He’s def. better than the number 4, 5 and 6 the Rangers have right now.

I hope this Redden gets a new team where he can show he can still play NHL games. Dropping a player in the AHL isn’t good for anybody.

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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:51:28 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126239Is this Erik Cole? Oh no, it’s Wade Redden, who’s determined to take money that he really didn’t earn through real hard work and dedication. He’s really famous now, he called “The Wade Redden Clause.” Or better yet, “Dead Weight”
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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:42:17 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126237I’m sure the Islanders will need some help to make the cap floor…
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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:27:28 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=924991#comment-126234I’d like a bit more physical play from him, but he’d still fit in with the Blues. Come on….
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